"I finally know that I'm in parentheses. Me, I at least have that chance. I'm like I am because I am in the process of life. An anorexic is not on the sidelines. It was made as thin as the line that separates the margin of space where one writes. One day or another, if all goes well, it returns to the page. That's what I'm trying to do. "
Emma is an anorexic adolescent. When his grandmother dies, she discovers a diary in which she learns that her great grandfather was part of the legion of French volunteers who collaborated with the Germans during World War II and has thus contributed to the deaths of many innocent people. The girl trying to learn more and will understand: the pages of narrative interspersed with excerpts from the diary of her grandmother, as well as building a dialogue between generations, between the stories. but, oddly, between questions of today that yesterday's answers are finally made. Gradually the girl realizes that her own body reproduces what happened to the deportees in the camps, including one whose grandfather was the custodian ;: Sobibor .
She decides to tell his grandfather what she knows and deliver the newspaper to Justice, thus freeing themselves from disease her unconscious laid upon him as if a fault had been expiated at last, even if the consequences of this confrontation with his grandfather will be tragic ...
Beyond the very strong emotion that captures the reader from first to last page, this story raises interesting questions about the weight of family secrets even across generations, memory collectively, the choice to live with or to rebel. The author, Jean Molla , an adult male, therefore, finds the right words to be heard the voice of this young girl who watches her body abused by the disease, describing his emotions of children forced to grow up too fast, who must cope with loneliness to find answers to many questions before they finally released wider world. At the same time, Jean Molla was delivered to a patient work of historians to collect the limited information available on the Polish camp of Sobibor (only camp where prisoners were insurgents) to write the 'story of his novel. A novel
to put all hands from 14 or 15 years.
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